At this point will FFXIV collapse if all mods and third party tools disappear?

[AlexiaD]

The simplest experiment to run on this is just pay attention on the release of a new expansion or raid patch.

Most of the casual raiders won't even raid until all their mods are up to date, and most of the role players don't even log in for the first few days since they cant play IMVU with all their mods broken by the patch.
It's hilarious seeing people rely so heavily on mods, and them crumble without them. If mods were removed, these people would 100% just dip from the game for good.

Then perhaps if they would dip, it's because the game needs it and/or they'd rather just leave and go somewhere else where mods and plugins are allowed.

Also it's on SE to make the characters look better so they dont have to mod, not everyone wants to look completely flat while playing a female character, a bit of curves aint gonna kill nobody, and no, the "graphical update" aka shaders and flower pots galore all over the place is not doing anything to help with that. Let's not even talk about how terrible the in game gear looks, thank god the mog shop saves it a little, but you have to shell the money for it.